Faculty Member Details

Md. Forkan Uddin received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering(EEE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology(BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada in 2011. In2003, he joined as Lecturer in the Department of EEE, BUET, Bangladesh, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include wireless communications and networking, smart grid communications and load management, and optical fiber communications. He received UGC Gold Medal 2017 in the category Engineering and Technology from the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh. 

Keywords/ Research Interest

Wireless Communications and Networking (5G and Beyond, IoT, M2M Communications, WLAN, Multi-hop Networks), Smart Grid Communications and Load Management, Optical Fiber Communications.

Awards/Honors

1. UGC Gold Medal 2017 in the category Engineering and Technology from the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh for outstanding contributions to the fundamental research work

2. Best Paper Award-Communication in the 1st IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Photonics (ICTP) 2015

Recent/Selected Publications

1. M. F. Uddin, “Energy Efficiency Maximization by Joint Transmission Scheduling and Resource Allocation in Downlink NOMA Cellular Networks,” vol. 159, pp. 37-50,  Computer Networks, May 2019.

2. M. F. Uddin and M. S. Mahmud, “Carrier sensing based medium access control protocol for WLANs exploiting successive interference cancellation,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 4120-4135, June 2017.